Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

As part of Global MeG fest 2, the Leighton Buzzard players, instead of all meeting up on one day, have chose to split our games over several days. Here is my first game of the three in this sequence. David invited me round to his games shed, he had chosen Parthian Vassel states, and I had used my Imperial Roman. These have been slightly tweaked since Burton (the last time they were used in anger) to improve their command structure. New version: No longer talented cinc , competent, mediocre, but CCT, and a couple of Orb upgrades for average units. David's list (screen shot from phone, excuse the quality): Ah, horse archers, many many horse archers, always a bane, especially when in cantabrian vs Romans, it slows you right down, and is like catching fog. It only needs three units to kill, but it will be very difficult if David dances and evades my slower foot. David won the attack/defend roll, and chose to attack, leaving me to chose terrain, so very dense mountains please! This e...

 A few years ago, this boxed set was left with me as an unclaimed prize after a Milton Keynes Campaign competition. This year, I finally caught up with their owner, and we decided that I could keep the figures. So, as the last, great lockdown project, I decided to build and paint them, add a few command figures and support weapons... Well, actually, rebulding the kitchen has actually become the last great lockdown project, but hey ho, here are some US Airborne... 1st Squad 2nd Squad Pathfinders .30cal team Commanders, medic and RTO (I lost the RTO's hand, so had to graft on a spare) Bazooka team 60mm mortar team And always one that escapes... So, now I've done them, what do I do with them?

Fluffy stared out across the almost barren plain, as the Mongol horde arrayed itself. Tumen after Tumen, horse archers streamed everywhere, and lurking behind, the guard of the Khan himself. 'This is going to be a hard day' he muttered under his breath. David from the Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club had asked for a game, and in amongst the rubble of our kitchen refit, and the tidal waves of my daughter's paddling pool, we set up in the garden in the dappled shade of apple and cherry trees for a most enjoyable afternoon's fight. David chose to defend and picked 'plains' as his territory type, which is bad news for me as I suffer in open terrain with my Samurai (especially agaisnt one of my two bet noires, horse archer armies). Thankfully, I did manage to force the terrain into 'Normal', so some terrain was on table, but the splats you see are carefully chosen 'open' terrain spaces by David. The first real surprise of the afternoon was the scoutin...